| 词条 | The Highwayman (poem) |
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"The Highwayman" is a narrative poem written by Alfred Noyes, first published in the August 1906 issue[1] of Blackwood's Magazine, based in Edinburgh, Scotland. The following year it was included in Noyes' collection, Forty Singing Seamen and Other Poems, becoming an immediate success. In 1995 it was voted 15th in the BBC's poll for "The Nation's Favourite Poems".[2] PlotThe poem, set in 18th century rural England, tells the story of an unnamed highwayman who is in love with Bess, a landlord's daughter. Betrayed to the authorities by Tim, a jealous ostler, the highwayman escapes ambush when Bess sacrifices her life to warn him. Learning of her death, he dies in a futile attempt at revenge, shot down on the highway. In the final stanza, the ghosts of the lovers meet again on winter nights. BackgroundThe poem was written on the edge of a desolate stretch of land known as Bagshot Heath, where Noyes, then aged 24, had taken rooms in a cottage. In his autobiography, he recalled: "Bagshot Heath in those days was a wild bit of country, all heather and pinewoods. 'The Highwayman' suggested itself to me one blustery night when the sound of the wind in the pines gave me the first line." The poem was completed in about two days.[3] Literary qualitiesThe poem makes effective use of vivid imagery to describe surroundings; plus repetitious phrases to create the sense of a horseman riding at ease through the rural darkness to a lovers' tryst and soldiers marching down the same road to ambush him. "The Highwayman" is reputed to be "the best narrative poem in existence for oral delivery".[4] Almost half a century later, Noyes wrote, "I think the success of the poem... was because it was not an artificial composition, but was written at an age when I was genuinely excited by that kind of romantic story."[3] Adaptations and use in popular culture
See also{{Portal bar |Poetry |Children's literature }}References1. ^{{cite web|title=The Highwayman|url=https://archive.org/stream/blackwoodsmagazi180edinuoft#page/244/mode/2up|work=Blackwood's Magazine on Internet Archive|accessdate=16 February 2015}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Highwayman, The}}2. ^{{cite web|title=Alfred Noyes|url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/wales/mid/halloffame/arts/alfrednoyes.shtml|work=BBC Mid Wales|accessdate=24 June 2012}} 3. ^1 2 Alfred Noyes 'Two Worlds for Memory. Philadelphia: J. B. Clipping, 1953, p. 38. 4. ^Iona and Peter Opie (eds). The Oxford Book of Narrative Verse. Oxford University Press, 1983, p. 399. 5. ^Armstrong Gibbs, p. 15. 6. ^{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0043638/|title=The Highwayman|date=12 August 1951|publisher=|via=IMDb}} 6 : 1906 poems|Narrative poems|Works originally published in Blackwood's Magazine|Kate Greenaway Medal winning works|Poetry by Alfred Noyes|Poems adapted into films |
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